Nuclear engineering professor Rebecca Abergel and her colleagues at Berkeley Lab developed a pill designed to treat radiation poisoning that could double as an anti-gadolinium-toxicity pill for MRI patients.

9/13/2019
Nuclear engineering professor Rebecca Abergel and her colleagues at Berkeley Lab developed a pill designed to treat radiation poisoning that could double as an anti-gadolinium-toxicity pill for MRI patients.

9/11/2019
In an underground vault enclosed by six-foot concrete walls and accessed by a rolling, 25-ton concrete-and-steel door, nuclear engineering students are making neutrons dance to a new tune: one better suited to producing isotopes required for geological dating, police forensics, hospital diagnosis and treatment.

9/9/2019
Berkeley Engineering was again ranked the number three program overall and the top public engineering school, in the 2020 U.S. News & World Report annual list of “America’s Best Colleges.” Eight individual engineering programs were ranked top 5 in their respective fields, and all were in the top 10.

9/5/2019New York Times
- Sally Floyd (Ph.D '89, EECS) was one of the inventors of Random Early Detection, which continues to play a vital role in the stability of the internet. She passed away on August 25.

8/28/2019Wired
- Berkeley Engineering's Alexandre Bayen and Liao-Cho are studying the impact that autonomous vehicles can have on traffic flow. And, their findings suggest that self-driving cars can help alleviate traffic.

8/27/2019
- The Gates Foundation awarded a grant to Berkeley in July 2019 to support the scaled-up production of the LoaScope, a mobile phone-based microscope developed by bioengineering professor Daniel Fletcher and researchers in his bioengineering laboratory.

Minner Lecture

Wednesday, Sept​ember 18

Barbara Simons (Ph.D. ’81, EECS), board chair of Verified Voting, will discuss whether we can recover from an attack on our election​ with Dean Tsu-Jae King Liu.​ ​The program will start at noon in the Bantato Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall. Lunch will be provided.